Fishmonger and oyster bar proprietor active in 1798. Erstwhile founder and owner of Rules Restaurant. This history page indicates that there is very little information available about Thomas and his son Benjamin.
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Thomas Rule
The English Heritage listing does indeed say "Benjamin Rule" but we are assu...
Rules®. London's oldest restaurant. In the year Napoleon opened his campaign ...
Invented the milk churn and campaigned for cleaner milk. Son of a dairyman. In 1864 in Museum Street/Coptic Street established the Express Country Milk Supply Company which sold milk. He also estab...
London's oldest restaurant. Opened by Thomas Rule primarily as an oyster bar. It specialises in game and owns the Lartington Estate in the High Pennines. The restaurant stayed in the Rule family un...
Public house popular with London's Bohemian set in the 1930s, as were all the pubs in Fitzrovia, and beyond. Customers including George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir and Humphrey Jennings were k...
Chef, author of cookbooks, inventor. One of the first celebrity chefs. Born France. Trained in Paris and fled to England during the French Revolution in 1830. Designed, invented and introduced vari...
Established in 1541. Rebuilt in 1901. By 1893 the address had changed from 26 Castle Street to 26 Furnival Street. Source: London Wiki.
Admiral. Born Nantwich. The youngest non-royal to become Rear Admiral since Nelson. Fought in WWI but more importantly, fearing defeat, kept the British Navy out of major sea battles and thus maint...
One of two killed by the Docklands IRA bomb. They were both workers in the newsagent’s directly opposite the bomb. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man and found the photo: there is ...
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